music, cats, books, and fancy boutiques
Dec. 9th, 2006 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseToday was the Christmas open house at Dusty Strings, which meant goggling over all sorts of wonderful folk music and instruments, eating cookies, drinking cider, and tooling around Fremont for a good while, looking both for last minute holiday gifts and for beautiful things that are way too expensive. I found a beautiful 1940s-style green hat that looked great on me, and a silk dress in a little boutqique that would have been stunning, I think, if I'd been brave enough to try it on. Knowing the price range of the shop, I resisted. But I got my annual fix of Celestial Seasonings holiday tea (Candy Cane Lane! And the new Sugar Cookie tea, too!), had a delicious sandwich and soda from PCC, petted kitties at my new-favorite used bookstore, and spent some time on the phone with my cousin (she of the totally random encounter at school last year), who sounds frazzled but very happy. We'll hopefully get together sometime next week, when she's not quite so trying-to-do-hundreds-of-things-at-once. ♥
Aaaaand, the U-Bookstore called me earlier in the week and left a message for me to call back but I haven't been able to get hold of the personnel director. *Panics* I tried today, but the office was closed. I really really really hope that nothing is wrong (what? I don't know. But I'm paranoid.) and that they want to (eep) hire me. *Crosses fingers, eyes, toes, etc*
Oh, and I finally got to wear my pretty new-ish black velvet skirt. It makes me happy. Tonight is the birthday dinner for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sigelphoenix, and then tomorrow is scrambling around making all ready for the house holiday party. Whee!
ETA: Had fun hanging out with people, lovely time seeing the crew as usual. Less than fabulous note of the evening include finding out that favorite professor's surgery was not just surgery but 'surgery followed by chemo,' and that she is not currently scheduled to be back at the university next quarter. Cue panic from Jen. Still no way of getting cards or what-have-you to her. Hoping to go to the departmental office on Monday in hopes of wrangling some method of getting notes to her out of the office lady I know. I know she probably has family and 'real' friends taking care of her, but... this has pretty much killed my ability to stifle desire to send notes etc. under the 'don't bug her, she'll email when she's feeling up to it' rug.
Also, the burn on my hand was bothering me (yes, it's probably just healing, but I'm paranoid) so I used some nasty sanitizing stuff, and then a few hours later washed it in very hot water, used more sanitizing stuff, then realizing that we have no bandaids and thus must tape my hand all to hell to keep sanitizing stuff on. Makes typing... interesting. Though I'm adapting. Tricky part is shift key. Anyhow, then had to wash face with only left hand (joy) and wear knit-hat to bed because my skin really doesn't need oily hair making it even worse right now. Hate acne-prone sensitive skin. Hate burned hand. Hate worrying about professor, and about job... and really hope I get to sleep more easily tonight than I did yesterday. :P
I should stop writing now and actually go to bed.
Aaaaand, the U-Bookstore called me earlier in the week and left a message for me to call back but I haven't been able to get hold of the personnel director. *Panics* I tried today, but the office was closed. I really really really hope that nothing is wrong (what? I don't know. But I'm paranoid.) and that they want to (eep) hire me. *Crosses fingers, eyes, toes, etc*
Oh, and I finally got to wear my pretty new-ish black velvet skirt. It makes me happy. Tonight is the birthday dinner for
sigelphoenix, and then tomorrow is scrambling around making all ready for the house holiday party. Whee!ETA: Had fun hanging out with people, lovely time seeing the crew as usual. Less than fabulous note of the evening include finding out that favorite professor's surgery was not just surgery but 'surgery followed by chemo,' and that she is not currently scheduled to be back at the university next quarter. Cue panic from Jen. Still no way of getting cards or what-have-you to her. Hoping to go to the departmental office on Monday in hopes of wrangling some method of getting notes to her out of the office lady I know. I know she probably has family and 'real' friends taking care of her, but... this has pretty much killed my ability to stifle desire to send notes etc. under the 'don't bug her, she'll email when she's feeling up to it' rug.
Also, the burn on my hand was bothering me (yes, it's probably just healing, but I'm paranoid) so I used some nasty sanitizing stuff, and then a few hours later washed it in very hot water, used more sanitizing stuff, then realizing that we have no bandaids and thus must tape my hand all to hell to keep sanitizing stuff on. Makes typing... interesting. Though I'm adapting. Tricky part is shift key. Anyhow, then had to wash face with only left hand (joy) and wear knit-hat to bed because my skin really doesn't need oily hair making it even worse right now. Hate acne-prone sensitive skin. Hate burned hand. Hate worrying about professor, and about job... and really hope I get to sleep more easily tonight than I did yesterday. :P
I should stop writing now and actually go to bed.
